Research on Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (EBP) compares a protocol against another treatment approach in order to demonstrate that the EBP is more effective than the other approach. In order to be considered an EBP, a protocol must repeatedly be demonstrated in well-conducted research studies to be effective at a level that can’t be accounted for by chance. EBPs that are supported again and again by research eventually become known as “gold-standard” treatments and are generally considered by the healthcare community to be the best treatment approaches because they have been demonstrated repeatedly to be the most likely to bring about change or relief for the clients who receive them.